tech-community-slacks VS CommunityWriterPrograms

2. [Chicago Tech Community Events](https://chitechcommunityevents.softr.app/)

The first is a list of all the tech/engineering orgs in Chicago I maintain. Many are still on meetup, but not all. Unfortunately there's not one calendar to find everything. The second is an attempt to make a calendar of Chicago tech events, but it's not perfect. I don't run it but I highly recommend it.

I do recommend joining local community slacks/Discords. There's a good one for slacks [here](https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks), e.g. for Chicago there's the [Chicago Tech Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/chicago-tech/shared_invite/zt-1cb3m...), but you'll need to explore around.

Layoffs.fyi has crowd-sourced layoff lists from different companies. Here's a lost of slack communities in tech: https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks

https://elpha.com/companies https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks (can narrow down by region/framework/interest/etc.) + would suggest to post to the Women In Tech slack too (womxnintechto.slack.com) Let me know if I can be of help at all.

Here's a list of slack groups someone maintains: https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks

I'd also google " slack" or " slack". You could also look for discords, I hear discord is hot right now and several communities I follow have moved to it from slack.

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You could try writing blog posts for a company[1]. I haven't done this but I know people who have. It's crazy what some companies pay for such low-quality content sometimes.

[1] https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

Community Writer Programs

Applying for jobs has to be the biggest headache for technical writers. There are lots of writing and guest author programs here for technical writers to apply to. There are also Paid Community Programs and Community Writer Programs carefully curated for writers.

Check this page https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

There are so many great resources to learn about technical writing. Such as Emy’s article about “Starting Out With Technical Writing”, Yuri’s curated list of technical writing resources and Bonnie’s own book and resources to technical writing and Daniel’s GitHub repo which contains lists of paid technical resources.

I run Draft.dev, so of course, I think we're the best, but I also help maintain this big list: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

Several platforms exist that pay developers for composing articles and or tutorials. A list of such writer programs can be found at here.